COASTAL GASLINK HITS MAJOR MILESTONE IN 2021 Coastal GasLink successfully and safely completed fabrication and delivery of pipeline assemblies to storage facilities.
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n 2021, Coastal GasLink
Cable Crane Hill, establishing this
Departments and the Village of Fraser
celebrated our most exciting
critical access for construction nine
Lake. We look forward to continuing
milestone to date; reaching 50
days ahead of schedule.
to support our local communities into
per cent overall completion
of the project. Our busy summer and fall construction seasons saw Coastal GasLink continuously hitting milestones, including the completion of the Murray River and Sukunka River horizontal directional drilling (HDD) trenchless water crossing as well as the Burnt River and Salmon River direct pipe installations (DPI) — bringing the project total to seven of nine trenchless crossings now completed.
From supporting essential services to
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wildlife protection, in 2021 we provided
On December 3, we celebrated
over $1.6 million to communities
our most recent milestone — the
through our community giving
fabrication and delivery of all the
program Build Strong, in addition
pipeline assemblies to our storage
to employee and prime contractor
facilities. In total we shipped thirty-
donations. Over $225,000 was donated
one 48-inch block valves along with
through our Empower employee
associated assembly piping, 259 3D
and workforce giving program. This
elbows, and 87 test heads and caps.
includes the project’s first Legacy of
This equated to over 100,000 factored
Giving Campaign with the United Way
weld-inches completed, or over 250
of Northern B.C.
truckloads of material assembled. This
We also celebrated the completion of
Our community giving included
the Kitimat Meter Station with zero
supporting the purchase of a spray park
commitment of our workforce. Over
safety or environmental incidents. Our
for Chetwynd and District Recreational
crews completed the access road to the
Centre and helping Nikanese Wah
top of Icy Pass — the highest elevation
Tzee Stewardship Society’s caribou
point on the project route. To cap off a
assemblies. To top it off, the entire
population recovery program. For first
very successful summer construction
fabrication scope was completed with
responders, we funded the purchase
zero lost time incidents.
season, on July 20 we marked the safe
of new fire equipment for the Bear
completion of the road to the top of
Lake and Salmon Valley Volunteer Fire
milestone couldn’t be done without the the course of this year, our workforce dedicated over 144,000 hours to the fabrication and delivery of our pipeline
For more information about construction activities including an interactive map, visit CoastalGasLink.com. O
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